It’s not. But it is.

That’s actually a pretty good analogy.

I think more like discovering making fire or something. 90% of all the energy burnt is people worshipping it as it blazes away, never actually fulfilling any practical use except being marvelous to be around.

But once the forest is all chopped down, people are forced to understand fire and realise a couple small logs in a contained place was all they needed to have it be incredibly effective.

Oh, but that’s too hard. It’s magic right now. All hail the AI bonfire!

Yeah, but American “liberals” aren’t actually liberals in any way. They’re just conservative narcissists inappropriately using that label to get away with very non-liberalism shit that ironically oppresses people’s freedoms for the sake getting/maintaining what they want.

It’s true. I didn’t realise how much a piece of shit I was until- Waaaait a minute…

Did you just assume binary genders?

pulls out taller soapbox

How dare you!

I miss those days…

If your parents wouldn’t let you see it at 12-years old, it’s too much for Lemmy to handle. Pearls will be clutched; soapboxes mounted.

I am so over hearing about AI. It’s getting to the point that I can assume anyone dropping the term at work is an idiot that hasn’t actually used or utilised it.

It’s this LLM phase. It’s super cool and a big jump in AI, but it’s honestly not that good. It’s a handy tool and one you need to heavily scrutinise beyond basic tasks. Businesses that jumped on it are now seeing the negative effects of thinking it was magic from the future that does everything. The truth is, it’s stupid and people need to learn about it, understand it, and be trained in how to use it before it can be effective. It is a tool, not a solution—at least for now anyways.

I did advanced mathematics and chose physics as one of my elective subjects in school. Nowadays, I do a lot of work based around analytics and forecasting.

“We need to find the average of this.”

“That’s easy. I’ll do some more advanced stuff to really dial in the accuracy.”

“Awesome. What’s the timeframe?”

looks at million row dataset “To find the average? Like a month. Some of these numbers are mispelled words… Why are all these blank?”

“Oh, you’ll have to read this 45 page document that outlines the default values.”

And that’s how roffice maths works. Lots and lots of if conditions, query merges, and meetings with other teams trying to understand why they entered in the thing they entered. By the time the data wrangling phase is complete, you give zero fucks about doing more than supplying the average.

What’s America’s stance on terrorism again? This is full-blown terrorism, but extra cold and intentional with each trigger pull. It’s certainly not running into an area with a bomb hoping for the best, that’s for sure.

Craggles™

Sandles for the crag allowing belayers to quickly slip them on and off. Toe area capped with light armour and good rubber soles for scrambling. Of course they have accessory loops for quickly attaching to bags for multi-pitch, Gone are the days of sore feet from belaying in climbing shoes, toe damage from catching a whip in flip-flops, or holding up your climbing partner by trying to find your approach shoes and a spot to put them on.

I don’t have children.

School nights are when all the kids that fuck my very old mother have to log off early, so I get to engage in venerable spray ‘n’ pray duels with formidable peers. For a couple hours, I am esteemed ‘average’.

It’ll get beaten. SmartTube already detects and skips people saying “Don’t forget to like and subscribe” and obviously any paid promotion sections. At this rate a 10 min video’s going to be sliced down to 2 and I’ll be none the wiser.

That’s a tough question. There’s so many; more just keeps coming.

Yeah, I taught my partner to drive manual transmission in case I’m incapacitated and need to be rushed to emergency care. Bit selfish of me.

Oh, that’s what that is. I thought it was just some proprietary engine component that makes Toyota’s hybrid engines unique to others.

It’d be all through intake, not exhaust. That’s where you get all the sucky whoosh noises sound from. Anything from the exhaust will be too explosive. Effectively, harnessing the sound of air being dragged into the engine for combustion, not being banged out.

The original sound was inspired by the sirens attached to Stukas in WW2, the siren wailing as the plane dove and air rushed through. These were added simply to terrify people.

However, there is rotaries. Adding rotary blocks to a rotary engine will make a much smoother scream sound, like the V10s and V12s of earlier Formula 1 cars. Though, it will be lacking that open air sound. Maybe with the right exhaust and intake, a tone could be achieved.

If you went EV, electric motors are high-pitched unless very large. You could combine this sound with air vents—catching air like the Stukas’ dive bomb air sirens—to get something similar, however, the air vents will be dependent on making noise with constant speed, disassociated with the engine. The TIE fighter also has no electric noise, it’s all terrifying roar…well, whatever the inhaling version of a roar is.

I have a Nepalese friend, Pasang Sherpa, but we just call him Mani. The surname means he and his family are from that specific area.

He has done a lot of Nepal (obviously) but for work he mostly portered to Camp 3. He says he preferred that so much more as they would just leave the guide and the tourists and power ahead with way more weight. On some occassions they’d do a second trip between camps for a different group and pass the first group on the way back up.

He enjoyed it, but competition between families and non-Sherpa people using the ‘Sherpa’ name almost as a brand to appear like that’s their locale, started making it risky with poor reward. These days, there’s a chance your Sherpa isn’t actually a Sherpa and is someone from another area in Tibet or Nepal that hasn’t grown up in those specific mountains or even the Himalayas at all and is lacking all that generational knowledge. The increase in ‘Sherpa’ deaths is a combination of that and taking bigger risks to get the better paying jobs to try make it through off-season. It’s a bit cutthroat up there nowadays.

Edit: Oh, fun fact. His great uncle was the youngest Sherpa on the 1924 Mallory/Irvine expedition. This dudes done K2, Everest a bunch, spent his childhood at Kangchenjunga, but his great uncle is still cooler lol

As an actual climber, I can’t imagine what these filthy grots do up there.

Camps always has a dedicated rubbish section, contained, easy to seal and haul. Things that are single-use are avoided as it’s dead weight. Otherwise, have planned rubbish that can provide a use later, whether material or balsa containers that become kindling once empty, or keeping wet socks/gear in a dry spot that won’t dampen other gear layer, or dry bags that are light, compact, sealed, and often have many uses when weather or situations change.

The rule in the mountaineering and climbing communities around here is, “Leave it better than you found it.” A real climber manages their haul so well, picking up other’s rubbish along the journey doesn’t impact their ideal max weight. So what the fuck are these idiots doing where 11 tonnes gets taken off the mountains?! Most everything should be easily finding its way to camps for planned hauls down to base during season.

Maybe they think it’s in Middle-East. I’ve seen people think Portugal—Spain too—is in South America.